![]() ![]() For me, the question of mortality was answered. I just thought – Oh! This is how it ends. “Everyone imagines how they’ll react with a cancer diagnosis,” he told me. The insights that journey afforded Wilko left me mesmerised. So unbelievable were the chain of events that led him to losing and then regaining his life. Wilko Johnson’s incredible story would not, as he says himself, get past the scriptwriting stage of any drama. But this is the first conversation with someone who knew – with absolute certainty – that their death was imminent. I’ve talked on this podcast with a number of people who’ve faced the prospect of death either in an accident or through illness. It finishes with this long droning synthesizer note – you hear that and think everything’s going to be alright. Van Morrison: Almost Independence Day from the album Saint Dominic’s Preview. Moby Dick: I love to read and what a book!ģ. Not Drinking: Alcohol can turn depression into despair.Ģ. A year he describes as both vivid and profound.ġ. In this bonus episode, Wilko talks with clarity and power about the 12 months he spent believing his death was imminent. Wilko had been misdiagnosed and after an 11hour operation was saved. ![]() Towards the end of his last year a fan – who was also a cancer specialist – urged him to seek a second opinion. He rejected chemotherapy and set about saying goodbye to his fans around the world in the only way he knew how … with a farewell tour and hit album. After an astonishing career (that included a role in Game of Thrones) Wilko was told in 2013 that he had terminal pancreatic cancer and only months to live. He’s also a man with a unique perspective on mortality as well as music. Wilko Johnson is one of Britain’s most revered rock stars … the Dr Feelgood guitarist who inspired Paul Weller and Joe Strummer. ![]()
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